B. B. King (Riley B. King) Quotes
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
Lady Gaga -
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
Carly Fiorina -
People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
Ian McShane -
If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
Barbara Bush -
I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
Rachel Roy -
I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
Paloma Faith
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Pamela Anderson -
Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
Dak Prescott -
I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
Banks -
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing -
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Walter Smith -
I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
J. K. Simmons
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
Rachel Nichols -
I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
Gary Ross -
I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
Victoria Pratt -
I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
Nathan Fillion
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
Calvin Klein -
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon -
I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
Finn Wittrock -
There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
T. Boone Pickens -
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King